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| Considering that gear ratio is such a fundamental concept, it's disturbing that several authors of Mindstorms books have got it confused. A good explanation is to be found on page 65 of Ben Erwin's "Creative Projects with LEGO Mindstorms". The best (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | start_process question....
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| I am writing a program based mainly on Fred Martin's book. The code is prety close to his program, but when I try to load I keep getting the following error codes, "attempt to use <int> as an array", and, "too many argumentd given to , (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Fantasy group?
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| (...) I'm not sure what you mean by 'in the long run'... Just to clarify, adding a group called build.fiction would have the intent of attracting posters whose building may be inspired by: TRON, Blade Runner, Hello Kitty, Le Morte D'Arthur, Monty (...) (22 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Request for designs
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| (...) That's true - I hadn't appreciated the level these people were at. In that case may I strongly recommend a classic: "The Art of Lego Design" by Fred Martin. You can find it in several places: (URL) could perhaps get these people to read it (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Thank you BayLUG
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| This is something I forgot to talk about at the last meeting... Saturday, May 18, 2002, was an anniversary for BayLUG... Back in May of 1998, LEGO released a schedule for its 25th Anniversary Traveling Truck Tour. In rec.toys.lego, Robery Dye posted (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.org.us.baylug)
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| | Re: Brainstorms
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| hi Fred, I would love to see a reaction from you on the discussion in this thread in lugnet.robotics. Not only because you're the inventor of the RCX but also you've done some some similar things, creating modular, stackable electronics with the aim (...) (22 years ago, 12-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Fred Meyer sale ends Wednesday
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| Fred meyers has HP Lego on sale and there is a coupon for $8 off the $19.99 creator bucket. The coupon has a limit of 4 buckets. The coupons is in the toy flyer in Sundays paper. They usually have their ads at the front of the store or coupons back (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Brickfest 2K+2
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| Hi All, I also wanted to take a moment and join the shorus of people posting their reactions and thoughts on BF2K+2. I went down to Virginia fully expecting to have a wonderful time, and I was not in the least disappointed. From start to finish, (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Spybotics vs Cricket
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| Forgive me if this has already been discussed.. I haven't followed all messages here. I was at TLC's presentation of Spybotics at BF. There, it was described as, "the next generation of RCX." Knowing it has 2 sensor inputs and 2 motor outs, I wonder (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Fred Meyers 20% off
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| I don't think anyone's mentioned this yet, but Fred Meyers has 20% off coupons for all Lego and Duplo until October 5th. The one closest to where I live had at least a few of the newer Harry Potter sets. But still no buckets. -- David Schilling (22 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Spybotics vs Cricket
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| (...) The Spybot brick has 3 motor outputs. A & B are the two built-in motors. Output C is the VLL light (pretty much exactly like the Scout brick wrt the third output). You can also control the LEDs on an individual basis (3 red, 3 green, and 1 (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Santa Fe Car Order
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| I was reading about the Santa Fe in some old magazines and they had a car order from a excursion in 1991. It was pulled by a Northern(S.F. 3751)* and 2 backup Dash 8-40CW Diesels(844 and 840). 3463 Baggage(Tool) Car* 77 Baggage Car 67 Sleeper "Regal (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | RE: Brainstorms
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| <snipped Fred's excellent Cricket description> (...) Again, I need to go back to my real-world fire alarm experience and say that this makes very good sense. Nobody gives much thought to the alarm systems in their building. They must meet very tough (...) (22 years ago, 13-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Over Charging
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| Fred, We had the same problem and traced it to the resistor. We can try the ZAP mode, but for future reference we would like to know the value you used to replace the 47 Ohm 1/2 watt resistor. Any chance we could get that information? Thanks, Dan (...) (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: A really simple technical question
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| Hi- Dan references an excellent website with information about military hardware: The Federation of American Scientists: www.fas.org The link to the page about Land Weapons Systems has a good discussion of Direct and Indirect weapons: (URL) it up, (...) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | A brothel is born...
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| Introducing from what I've read, most likely the 1st brothel to Castle. The King's Dream is the latest addition to my small village to join the latest castle. (URL) Other pictures of the village and castle can be found at... (URL) is welcome. Fred (21 years ago, 21-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
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